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March 19th, 2013
By now, you’ve heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Sadly, there’s also one in the Atlantic, and more emerging elsewhere. Islands cinematographer Justin Lewis is creating a documentary film on the North Atlantic Trash Gyre, and a hard cover book showcasing the sea life it impacts. That is, if his project can gain more support....
February 19th, 2013
It's long past Feb. 14, and you forgot Valentine's Day. You slipped. You went brain dead. You whiffed. And now you're in a doghouse so big, you can even afford the property taxes on the square footage. But we're here to rescue you....
January 22nd, 2013
No, don't worry. Quaint, cozy Harbour Island remains quaint and cozy, with no signs of American franchises. Well, except one. Locals Ryan and Gem Austin recently opened Cocoa, a Starbucks-infused coffeehouse. Located across the street from the iconic Valentines Resort, Cocoa opened one month ago, shortly after Starbucks coffee and espresso machines arrived from Italy....
January 10th, 2013
Almost every cruise line sailing the Caribbean can boast of having its very own private island. But only Royal Caribbean can claim its own peninsula, Labadee, an exclusive playground on Haiti’s north coast where the action aboard the world’s two largest cruise liners, Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas, moves from ship to shore. The 26-acre playground comprises seven “neighborhoods”: Columbus Cove has a water park with floating “icebergs”; there’s Adrenaline Beach, with the Dragon’s Tail roller coaster; and the Barefoot Beach Club, where private over-water cabanas await those with a taste for the finer things (and a spare $200 to reserve one for the day). But don’t leave Labadee without ... ...
January 8th, 2013
Usually we don't push a ton of deals at you because if your inbox is like ours here at CT+L, you're getting swamped with Caribbean cheap flights, all-inclusive vacation packages and beach resort deals all the time. It's hard to separate the OK deals from the great. But when we came across this JetBlue deal -- which ends tomorrow -- we had to pass it along. Really, for $80, you could be on your way to Puerto Rico, plus a lot more ......
January 7th, 2013
Rum cake is a staple across the Caribbean. (We've just added our chef's delicious rum cake recipe below -- the best rum cake you'll ever have.) From plum-pudding varieties for the holidays to light, sophisticated brown rum cakes for year-round celebrations, this elegant cake is a perfect foundation for all things dessert. Chef and cookbook author Ramin Ganeshram has a brand-new way to enjoy the famed confection (pictured): paired with mulled dried fruits, hard sauce and whipped cream for a sugar-plum vision strictly for the grown-ups. Plus here are seven more favorites made better with rum... ...
January 4th, 2013
Seriously, this video from Barbados tourism is making the rounds at our office today and it's spectacular. Even if you aren't a Rihanna fan, even if you didn't know she was from Barbados, even if you hate catchy music (wait, you hate catchy music?!), you'll love this video. In the 30ish years of Caribbean Travel + Life, our editors and photographers covered Barbados 30ish times. Yet in just over one minute, Rihanna will ......
January 4th, 2013
Even if you’ve never heard of Guy Harvey, you probably know his fish-themed T-shirts, sported all over the Caribbean and beyond. The Jamaica-born Cayman Islands resident specializes in marine art — everything from small pen-and-inks of groupers to 300-foot murals of sharks — and knows the scientific names of all his salty subjects. But what else would you expect from a former university professor with a Ph.D. in marine biology? In his second career as a wildly successful artist, Harvey’s remarkably realistic images adorn canvas and even vinyl car wraps. We found the man himself at his George Town gallery to get his take on Cayman — and those ubiquitous T-shirts. Here are highlights ......
January 3rd, 2013
Finding a big, beautiful Caribbean beach: easy. Finding a big, beautiful Caribbean beach that you can have (or at least feel as if you can have) all to yourself: Well, that’s not quite as easy. Over the past few months I’ve been shooting in the Bahamas, Aruba, Bermuda and other island locales — places with no shortage of sugary strands. And I’ve noticed that while you can easily find a small cove for some solitary sun-worshipping, it’s a whole lot harder to find a place of your own along those expansive sweeps of sand that really define (for me, at least) what a Caribbean beach is all about. More often than not, I find myself at resorts where the beach, albeit magnificent, is lined with seemingly endless rows of blue-and-white-striped beach chairs and a procession of beach umbrellas stippling the sand like freckles. Call me selfish, but having to share the shore with so many ...
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January 3rd, 2013
Warning: a conversation with Robert Trevino will make you salivate. That’s because the feted chef behind three of San Juan’s hottest restaurants tends to reroute all talk back to what really matters: food. His latest venture is the “distinctly Latin but distinctly Asian” Budatai, he says, regaling me with details of quesadilla egg rolls and Peking-style nachos. Only one thing excites him as much as food: Puerto Rico itself. “Part of opening a great restaurant is loving your city. I got here and fell in love with this place.” Here are the highlights of the CT+L interview ......
